I am a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Turku. 

I hold an MA, Licentiate of Philosophy degree, and Doctorate in Musicology likewise from the University of Turku. In the beginning of 2019, I returned to my Alma mater after holding several positions at other institutions to work first as Lecturer and, from 2022, as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Musicology. 

In 2015-2018, I worked as a substitute for Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology (2015-6) and as Senior Lecturer in Musicology (2016-8) at the University of Helsinki. Before that, I was a Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader of BA Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK (2008-2014). 

In addition to these teaching and administative positions, I have worked as a researcher in a number of international and Finland-based funded projects. These include a position as Senior Research Fellow in the project Deleuzian Music Research (Academy of Finland-funded, 2012-2016) and involvement, also as Senior Research Fellow, in the project, Localizing Feminist New Materialisms (Academy of Finland-funded, 2017-2021,  https://femnewmat.utu.fi/). I also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the international cross-disciplinary project, SENSOTRA - Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships in Europe 1950-2020 (European Research Council Advanced Grant, 2016-2021, https://www.uef.fi/fi/web/sensotra/home).      

In 2020-2024, I co-led, with Senior Lecturer in Art History Dr. Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, the project New Economies of Artstic Labour, which was funded by the Kone Foundation. The project critically analyzed the interrelations, or intra-actions, of contemporary artists' work, daily life, income and its problems in Finland of the 2020s from a new perspective which combines theories and methods from studies of art, social policy and labour market research, and artistic research. In 2020-2023, I also served as the Chair of the Finnish Musicological Society. 

All my research represents cultural musicology. I am interested in music and sounds as practices that are shaped by the material, social, and symbolic factors of the surrounding world, but which also shape these factors in turn: spaces and places, the roles of technologies and objects, bodily processes and experiences, and ways of thinking and social relations.

My key area of ​​expertise is musical performance studies. I have examined the socio-material aspects, meanings and world relations of performance practices in several areas of musical life, ranging from opera and 'classical' music culture to experimental and popular music. My research also concerns interdisciplinary voice studies, the relationships between music and gender, the relationships between music and the more-than-human world, the working conditions of contemporary artists, and elaborations of the theories of new materialism and posthumanism in the study of arts. Recent publications related to my research interests include the co-edited works Mattering Voices (Routledge, 2025) and New Materialism and Intersectionality (Routledge, 2025).
 
Since the mid-2000s, I have been developing especially new materialist methodological approaches to music, sound and other arts. I was one of the founding members of the research network New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on How Matter Comes to Matter (IS1307, funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, 2014-2018), which spanned over 15 European countries. Together with two other researchers, I led the network's largest working group titled New Materialisms Embracing the Creative Arts, with over 60 members. I also organized (together with Jussi Parikka) the first international conference on new materialisms (Anglia Ruskin University, 2010), in a series that continues annually.

In 2020-2024, I led the interdisciplinary project New Economies of Artistic Labour funded by the Kone Foundation, together with Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Turku. The project produced new knowledge about the changing work and earning opportunities of artists in contemporary society, methodologically combining perspectives from art research, social sciences, and artistic research. Our research group included experts in literary studies, media studies, musicology, sociology, art history, social policy, and sound art and sound studies.

My publications include nearly 40 peer-reviewed articles in international and domestic publications, the monographs Säveltäjän sijainnit (Locating the Composer, Jyväskylä nykykultturin tutkimuskeskus, 2005) and Becoming-Singer: Cartographies of Singing, Music-Making and Opera (University of Turku 2012), and in addition to the above-mentioned collections of articles, previous co-edited books Musiikin ja teatterin tekijöitä (Suomen musiikkitieteellinen seura, 2005) and Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). I currently have a publishing contract for one monograph and one edited volume. I have edited 13 special issues for domestic and international peer-reviewed journals. These include issues of the journals Body&Society (2014), Cultural Studies Review (2015) and Ruukku - Studies in Artistic Research (2018), as well as a special issue of the journal Musiikki celebrating the work of music researcher Taru Leppänen (2024).

In total, I have published over 100 scientific texts. I have presented my work extensively (over 60 conference papers) and given keynote presentations, for example, at the universities of Maynooth, Salamanca and Utrecht, as well as the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. In 2017-2020, I was the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Musiikki published by the Finnish Musicological Society.

I am currently interested in the artistic and social opportunities and challenges of opera culture, art collectives in Finnish transnational contemporary art, and the adaptations of new materialist and posthumanist philosophies in music and sound research.